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Stade de Reims’ Marshall Munetsi is attracting interest from Premier League and Championship clubs, according to Foot Mercato. The 26-year-old Zimbabwean international is one of Ligue 1’s most underrated holding midfielders. Having arrived from South African outfit Orlando Pirates in...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – Talisman Sikandar Raza has returned to the Zimbabwe team for the three-match ODI series against Ireland while veteran batter Chamu Chibhabha is re-called for the first time in two years. Raza missed the T20I contest, won...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – All-rounder Ryan Burl bagged his second man-of-the-match award as Zimbabwe beat Ireland by four wickets to seal the T20I series 2-1 on Sunday. Leg-spinner Burl first took 2-28 after Zimbabwe won toss and elected to field...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – Ross Adair made the move from professional rugby to cricket few years back, but the switch was just for “fun”, he didn’t expect to achieve anything meaningful in his new sport, let alone play internationally...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – Zimbabwe held nerves to pull off an exciting five wicket win over Ireland in the first T20I  on Thursday to take a one nil lead in the three-match series. Man-of-the-match Ryan Burl helped the hosts bowl...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – Sikandar Raza, Zimbabwe’s talismanic all-rounder, has been short-listed for three major International Cricket Council (ICC) awards following a splendid year in the two white-ball formats. The 36-year-old star was in majestic form with the bat for...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – Zimbabwe senior player Sean Williams has welcomed former England batter Gary Ballance’s switch of allegiance to the African team, saying the move will lift a perpetually struggling batting line-up. Batting all-rounder Williams was Zimbabwe’s captain at...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – Sinikiwe Mpofu, the former Zimbabwe Women cricket player, has died suddenly on Saturday morning less than a month after the death of her husband Shepherd Makunura, also an ex-cricketer. Mpofu, who was a key player in...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – Many sporty young white Zimbabweans endeavour to be the next Andy Flower on the cricket field, the next Nick Price on the golf course, the next Kirsty Coventry in the swimming pool. 20-year-old Sebastien Summerfield has...

SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – Former Zimbabwe national team cricket coach Steve Mangongo landed in India this week in charge of the Under-19 side of South Africa’s PowerPlay Sports Academy, a very exciting and thriving project he is a co-director of. The...